From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-12-13T13:00:50+09:00
Subject: Re: How to catch Timeout::ERROR ?

On Dec 12, 2005, at 6:00 PM, Verestiuc Vlad wrote:

> Is there any way to catch Timeout::ERROR exception throw by timeout  
> () ?

Timeout::Error

> ====[cut here]======
> #!/usr/bin/env ruby
>
>
> require 'open-uri'
> require 'timeout'
>
>
> begin
>         open("http://6.6.6.6/"){}
> rescue => e

rescue Timeout::Error => e

>         puts e.message
>         puts "I'm still running"
> end

Beware!

You should use a subclass of Timeout::Error when nesting timeouts  
(Net::HTTP has timeouts inside) so that you don't trap the wrong  
timeout in the wrong place and run forever:

irb(main):002:0> open('http://localhost:8080/')
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:43:in `rbuf_fill': execution  
expired (Timeout::Error)

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